Small theatre wins funding to modernise its building

A SMALL Croydon theatre that specialises in working with young people has received funding to modernise the building where it's based.

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Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation (CYTO) at The Shoestring has received £7,500 which it aims to use to improve the building in which it is based.

Theatres Trust, the national advisory and advocacy body for theatres, has awarded a total of £80,000 in grants to 12 community theatres in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland through its Small Grants Programme with The Linbury Trust.

Amongst the recipients in this round are several theatres who work with communities that would otherwise have limited access to the arts, whether they serve some of the UK's most disadvantaged communities; work specifically with children and young people or are based in rural areas.